Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station to swab the orbiting lab for evidence of microorganisms.

"NASA and SpaceX are expeditiously working to safely return the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore as soon as practical, while also preparing for the launch of Crew-10 to complete a handover between expeditions," Cheryl Warner, NASA's news chief at the agency's headquarters, said in a statement to reporters.

The astronauts who traveled to the International Space Station aboard the Boeing Starliner are in good health, a NASA spokesperson has said, dismissing fake online reports of their death. The false narrative also includes false quotes attributed to Elon Musk.

The president and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk are falsely blaming Biden for the situation, ignoring an existing plan that's been in place since last year.

Elon Musk took to X to state President Trump has asked for the quick return of two NASA astronauts who flew to space in June.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is indicating his private spaceflight company could work to bring NASA astronauts back home sooner than expected.

A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is already scheduled to return the astronauts under a plan announced by NASA in August.

Posts by President Trump and Elon Musk roiled the space community, raising the prospect of an earlier-than-planned return for the Starliner crew.

Astronauts Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore rode a Boeing Starliner to the station in June 2024 for what was supposed to be an eight-day mission. But NASA had concerns about the Starliner after years of delays, plus leaks and thruster problems during its trip to the station, so it came back to Earth without them in September.

Is an embattled Boeing performing above or below forecasts? It may be better to just go with your gut. The Virginia-based plane maker confirmed Tuesday that revenues shrank 31% in the fourth quarter of 2024 from a year earlier,

Boeing has crashed to the second biggest annual loss in its 109-year history as the plane maker grapples with the fallout of a major safety scandal.

Suni Williams steps outside the International Space Station for the first time since arriving in June on Boeing’s Starliner.